For months, liberals have been up in arms over President Trump’s executive order restricting travel from countries with high instances of terror. The left, and their allies in the media have falsely called the travel restrictions a “Muslim ban” and went judge shopping to get the order struck down in federal court.
The Trump administration then issued a new order, clarifying the travel restrictions but that hasn’t satisfied liberals, who again have gone to court to challenge the legality of the order. In fact, two of the judges who have ruled against the president’s travel restrictions gave money to Barack Obama, which suggests they are incapable of being unbiased in their rulings.
Well, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond is going to hear the case today, and the federal government is pushing the court to “lift a stay imposed by a federal judge in Maryland on March 16 blocking the administration from carrying out the executive order. The full 15-member court will consider the appeal, bypassing the normal first step of a hearing before a three-judge panel.”
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the challenge to a Maryland judge’s decision to freeze Trump’s travel ban https://t.co/xwnnLDd3ET pic.twitter.com/k6wDMf5C7j
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From NBC News:
Justice Department lawyers say the court should evaluate the words of the executive order and the administration’s explanation
The administration’s lawyers say the revised order — imposing a 90-day ban on travel from Iran, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Yemen — was intended to enhance national security by allowing the government to study its ability to properly vet visa applications from those countries.
The goal was not to restrict travel by Muslims, the Justice Department says in its legal brief submitted ahead of Monday’s courtroom showdown. “Those countries represent a small fraction of the world’s 50 Muslim-majority nations and approximately ten percent of the global Muslim population.”
What’s more, the government says, any claim of discrimination now is premature, because visa applicants from those countries can seek waivers from the executive order. The Iranian wife of one of the challengers was granted an immigrant visa May 1, the government says.
13 states have announced their support for President Trump’s travel restrictions as they know that our country needs to beef up our vetting procedures for individuals seeking to visit our country.
While the left has been unified in their opposition to the travel restrictions, when the United States announced electronics restrictions on flights originating from some of the same countries that were named in the executive order, they remained silent. The left’s lack of substantive objections to these travel limitations is obvious, and they instead have been using fear tactics to try and block the president’s anti-terrorism agenda.
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